The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1887-06-02
NEWS IN BRIEF.

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passengers is missing.
In the railroad wreck at Horse Shoe
Bend on the Pennsylvania Railroad, on
Friday night, eight persons were killed
and six injured.
ire occurred Sunday at New Or
l. -, destroying the old Continental
SSl Ia Hotel, and eating out the
bounded by Continental, st.
J., and Chartres streets. Loss
S30,vIr
NJ. Schanne is dead. He was the
last of the real "Bohemiann of Paris,
and was the original of Murger's
"Schauna-d-" He was sixty-four years
old and followed the business of 4 toy
merchant.
A terrible coal mine explosion has
occurred in Udstonepit, eight miles
from Glasgow. Two hundred men
were in the mine Many have been
recovered, but it is feared that many
lives have been lost.
Oscar Wilde, the apostle of ;etheti-
cism after mild attempts at poetry, has
at length blossolned forth as novelist.
One of the London society papers con-
tains serial story Of the blood-and-
thunder species entitled, lord Arthur
Sayille's Crime: tale of fChiromancy."
The news of the victory of the LomaX
Rifles at Washington drill was received
with much enthusiasm in Mobile. The
citizens have begun decorating their
houses ard preparing to give the vic
tors a warm reception Wednesday
morning.
It has been assumed from the first
that the new Catholic University would
be located in in Washington. Rumors
have, however, been recently circulat-
ed that the projectors were considering
the question of locating the university
elsewhere.
President Cleveland is sre g,S1sfis1Tsov ,sei;s1 z cav
ing: g u dEink="55 555r s5f" and !: light wines
q HsiA:5sir, and think I feel all the better
for them; but I do not recommend
their use to others, because [ believe
that every man should be a law unto
himself in this matter"
Two severe shocks of earthquake
were felt in the city of Mexico on the
morning of the 29th at ten minutes of
three o'clock. They created general
excitement, and thousands Of persons
dressed themselves and remained up
the remainder Of the night, but no one
was hurt as far as known.
The Vatican, replying to the request
for an Interpretation Of the Pope's
recent allocution, has sent circulars to
the Papal Nuncios abroad stating that
although the Pope's declarations are
moderate, nothing will be changed,
and if the Italian government desires
peace, the Pope is disposed to treat on
the basis Of restoration Of his temporal
powers.
The people of the Holy Land are
becoming civilized. Bethlehem's
streets are lighted with gas. Nazareth
is the headquarters Of big olive oil
speculators, and Cesarea is having a
building boom. A large soap factory
has been established on the site of the
ancient Shechem, and the people are
beginning to use it on their persons in
stead of trying to eat it, as they did at
first.
Richard Williams, Of Manchester, in
attempting to jump on the southern
bound train while it was crossing the
railroad bridge over James River, at
Richmond, missed his footing and was
thrown from the bridge to the falls
below, distance Of sixty feet. In fall
ing he made several turns and finally
struck the water feet first. Those who
witnessed the fall expected to see
Williams killed, but he was rescued
with only his collar bone broken and
several severe bruises.
The noble and once stalwart Briton
is rapidly shrinking. When Queen
Victoria went on the throne the amy
regulations required recruits to be not
less than five feet, eight inches in
height. Ithas been found necessary to
reduce this limit to five feet, three
inches. At this rate the British grena-
dier will be about three feet and halt
tall hundred years from now, and it
will take half a dozen of him to with
stand single descendant of an Ameri-
can baseball athlete.
National Memorial day was generally
observed. At Richmond, Va, Confed-
crates and Federals joined together. A
monument commemorative of the
heroic deeds of German-American
soldiers was unveiled at Chicago. Dis
patches from Washington, Galveston,
New York, Louisville, Baltimore Sa-
vannah, Philadelphia, Gettysburg and
other points, tell of speech making and
strewing of flowers. Business was
generally suspended. In many places
the blue and the grey observed the day
together.
There are considerably over sixty
thousand persons persons confined at
the present time in prisons in the
United States. This is nearly nine
times the number Of prisoners in 1850,
so that, even making allowance for in
crease in population, crime, or at any
rate punishment for crime, is much
more general now than then. The
West compares very favorably with the
East in regard to the proportion OF
prisoners to population, and Massachu-
setts seems the favorite home Of the
habitual criminal. In one county OF
that State one inhabitant out every
270 is in Jail.
A. G. Hill, book agent representing
Cincinnati firm, called at the house
of Mr.. PERI, about fifteen miles east OF
Corsicana, Tex, Saturday. Finding no
one at home but Ferris daughter, the
book agent entered the house without
invitation and, it is said, grossly in
suited the young woman. She ordered
him from the house, and went imme-
diately to the field and informed her
father. The old man got his shot gun,
followed the agent, overtaking him at
the next farm, and shot him, from the
effects of which he died in a few
hours.
\ German writer has found that the
present year is the one hundredth ami
versary of the birth Of the waltz. In
17S7 a Spanish composer named Vim
cent Martin had an opera performed in
Vienna, in which there was dance
which so captivated the town that all
Vienna took at once to waltzing, or
"valsing," as it is now common to say,
though "waltz" was good enough for
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